Welcome all to IS PHARMACOLOGY DIFFICULT Podcast! I am Dr Radhika Vijay. In today's episode, a little brushing before I take a deep dive in true and exact process of Pharmacokinetics, let the oven preheat before true baking starts!! The heads covered are Vesicular transport and Filtration. As I solve the puzzle of tangled and knotty wool yarn of the day's talk, the beginnings of conversation are marked by definitions and explanations of Pinocytosis and Phagocytosis, two types of Endocytosis. Its...
Apr 16, 2021•13 min
Welcome all to IS PHARMACOLOGY DIFFICULT Podcast! I am Dr Radhika Vijay. Today's is a special one year birthday anniversary celebration episode for my podcast. I will be conveying my thanks, gratitude and happiness and giving all the great listeners a BIG SHOUTOUT!!!!! My only humble request and wish is to all of you great listeners is to stay tuned, acknowledge and appreciate my work, I will strive for better performance, best to my capacity and knowledge forever and always!!!! A BIG THANKS TO ...
Apr 14, 2021•9 min
Welcome all to IS PHARMACOLOGY DIFFICULT Podcast! I am Dr Radhika Vijay. Today's episode will be started with the current season update, the special season of Spring! The ball is set to rolling with the description of Secondary active transport, its features, its types, etc. The two types are based on the direction of movement of ions or solutes. If its same or opposite defines the two types. Next I will give examples of secondary active transporters. Then I will be describing in detail about Me...
Apr 12, 2021•12 min
Welcome all to IS PHARMACOLOGY DIFFICULT Podcast! I am Dr Radhika Vijay. As the clock hits the time of Pharm'o clock, I am here to talk about at brand new topic. Actually I will break the ice with characteristics of Up Hill Transport i.e. Active transport. I will be explaining all the terms in details with apt examples. Then I will shift this talk head towards the branches of Active Transport i.e. first and foremost "Primary Active Transport". In this I will be explaining the mechanism, the asso...
Apr 09, 2021•12 min
Welcome all to IS PHARMACOLOGY DIFFICULT Podcast! I am Dr Radhika Vijay. Today is the weekend special topic, its all about different variants of specialised transport mechanisms. Broadly they may be of two types, the carrier mediated transport and vesicular transport. First and foremost , as I talk about carrier mediated transport, under this head, today we gonna chat regarding Facilitated Diffusion. It has special characters which I will highlight and eventually summarize after a warm French we...
Apr 04, 2021•7 min
Welcome all to IS PHARMACOLOGY DIFFICULT Podcast! I am Dr Radhika Vijay. In today's episode, I will first make you all do rollercoaster revision ride about what all we have done in recent past episodes, too quickly and then we will talk about influence of pH on passive diffusion.Then I will give you all the equations separate for weak acid and weak base, I will highlight the differences in these too! Next I will derive few basic facts and concepts related to it, after describing a little, I will...
Mar 28, 2021•15 min
Welcome all to IS PHARMACOLOGY DIFFICULT Podcast! I am Dr Radhika Vijay. In today's episode i will be commencing my talks upon Pharmacokinetics, the dreaded one!! But no worries, we will inaugarate the conversation in too simple way just good enough to settle in your minds highly simplified everything! First comes the definition, then basic concepts, ideas, rules of the theory of pharmacokinetics. It is famous as the ADME study, I will be giving little details about it then before actually divin...
Mar 20, 2021•9 min
Welcome all to IS PHARMACOLOGY DIFFICULT Podcast! I am Dr Radhika Vijay. Today is a Golden day of marking end to this ongoing topic of routes of drug administration with initial few words of leftover routes like conjunctival, vaginal, inunction, urethral etc and finally with fair amount of discussions I will be summarizing all the routes in a rollercoaster ride as a rapid fire round under major heads of name of route, absorption pattern, advantages, disadvantages and wonderful examples, this who...
Mar 09, 2021•21 min
Welcome all to IS PHARMACOLOGY DIFFICULT Podcast! I am Dr Radhika Vijay. Today's episode covers Transdermal Therapeutic System (TTS) in details with a few words about Nasal and Inhalational routes of drug administration and specially I laid emphasis on differences of the two. In all these routes as per the tradition, I discussed the important characteristics, features, details covering the mechanism, method, everything followed by pros and cons, essence, ignorance, and finally the last few golde...
Mar 03, 2021•10 min
Welcome all to IS PHARMACOLOGY DIFFICULT Podcast! I am Dr Radhika Vijay. For all the updates and latest episodes of my podcast, please visit www.ispharmacologydifficult.com where you can also sign up for a free monthly newsletter of mine. It actually contains lot of updates about the medical sciences, drug information and my podcast updates also. After a little break, I am back with more information on injections, today the focus will be on sub cutaneous route of drug administration, I will be n...
Feb 26, 2021•14 min
Welcome all to IS PHARMACOLOGY DIFFICULT Podcast! I am Dr Radhika Vijay. After a long gap today's episode is a on going series of our topic injections.to begin with i will start today's talk with Intramuscular Injections where i will be discussing about the site , characters , features, advantages, disadvantages and examples for this route. And next in list is Intradermal Injections. with a few guess games to keep up the spirit, i will call it for the day. Hope you all liked it and had a great, ...
Feb 14, 2021•9 min
Welcome all to IS PHARMACOLOGY DIFFICULT Podcast! I am Dr Radhika Vijay. The celebrated topic of today's episode is the Parenteral Routes of Drug Administration, in this firstly I will define this route, its basic implications. My first choice of injections will be Intra venous, I will talk about its uniqueness, speciality and after explaining its need, etc, I will make you count firstly the advantages of this wonderful route of drug administration actually on your fingertips. The best aspect is...
Feb 05, 2021•11 min
Welcome all to IS PHARMACOLOGY DIFFICULT Podcast! I am Dr Radhika Vijay. What are the basic good things to know about buccal and rectal routes, what are the pros and cons, all these scintillating points will form head points to form discussion content for today !! As we climb the ladder step by step by routes of drug administration, after oral, next step is sublingual or buccal. Then I will tell you minute difference between the two terms, though they are used interchangeably. Then I will abide ...
Jan 30, 2021•11 min
Welcome all to IS PHARMACOLOGY DIFFICULT Podcast! I am Dr Radhika Vijay. Why different drugs have different routes of administration? What are the advantages and disadvantages of oral route of drug administration? All these questions will be answered in today's episode. Firstly I will break the ice of today's episode with the different properties of drugs and different factors that govern the choosing of different routes of drug administration. I will be actually enlisting these. Then I will tel...
Jan 28, 2021•13 min
Welcome all to IS PHARMACOLOGY DIFFICULT Podcast! I am Dr Radhika Vijay. How do monoclonal antibodies behave as drug carriers? How are they named so uniquely? In today's episode I will be discussing all this mechanics. Monoclonal antibodies are an important drug delivery system, how the are structured in a very special unique way will be discussed first, then I will be throwing light on different epitopes, the Hybridoma technique to structure these products. It will tell you how murine and human...
Jan 26, 2021•14 min
Welcome all to IS PHARMACOLOGY DIFFICULT Podcast! I am Dr Radhika Vijay. Any guesses about today's episode? Today's conversation covers a very interesting and updated topic , something like Targeted Drug delivery. First and foremost I will define this system of drug delivery, then I will be making you aware of its two types. They are Passive drug targeting and active drug targeting. These are centred around nanoparticles and under these I will talk about magnetoliposomes. Later, I will be talkin...
Jan 23, 2021•11 min
Welcome all to IS PHARMACOLOGY DIFFICULT Podcast! I am Dr Radhika Vijay. What do you know about Inhalational dosage forms? What are different devices used to deliver these dosage forms? What are different mechanisms and processes? Lets get to know all these... Firstly waiving a green flag to today's conversation, I will comment on Inhalant, Aerosols and finally Spinhalers. Firstly i will tell you which drugs can be given as Inhalations. Then I will be starting the real detailed talk about Metere...
Jan 20, 2021•12 min
Welcome all to IS PHARMACOLOGY DIFFICULT Podcast! I am Dr Radhika Vijay. Do you know about Liquid dosage forms for Internal use? How will you differentiate lotions from liniment? All these questions will be answered in today's episode! To break the ice , I will be talking about liniment definition , they are applied locally externally WITH RUBBING, they possess qualities and work through mechanism of counterirritant and rubefacient. I will be talking about these in detail and will be complementi...
Jan 17, 2021•8 min
Welcome all to IS PHARMACOLOGY DIFFICULT Podcast! I am Dr Radhika Vijay. What is the great importance of Liquid Dosage forms in our day to day lives? How would you distinguish between mixtures and emulsions or between spirits and tinctures? All the blurry dust would be cleaned over these information blocks in today's episode. I will be starting today's talk with Aqueous suspensions like mixtures and emulsions. Next I will divert my talks towards Alcoholic suspensions, first and foremost in the l...
Jan 15, 2021•11 min
Welcome all to IS PHARMACOLOGY DIFFICULT Podcast! I am Dr Radhika Vijay. Do you know about Liquid dosage forms of Internal use? What is the quick fact file of injection?All the details and much more will be poured all in today's episode. Today's conversation will commence from the discussions about Elixirs and after describing their features in short, I will tell about two important types of ELIXIRS, like syrups, linctus and additional notes on Liquors. Next I will turn your all ears toward deta...
Jan 13, 2021•13 min
Welcome all to IS PHARMACOLOGY DIFFICULT Podcast! I am Dr Radhika Vijay. What is the thin line of difference between solid and semi solid dosage forms? Thats the topic of today! Amongst the different semi solid dosage forms, first one to talk is ointment, I will tell you the nature, composition and different examples , next I will be talking about Creams, which are in fact a modified version of ointment but what you ought to know is the difference between these two and which finds use where, tha...
Jan 10, 2021•12 min
Welcome all to IS PHARMACOLOGY DIFFICULT Podcast! I am Dr Radhika Vijay. Its great to talk to you all today, at the end of first week of brand new shining hopeful year 2021!! What do you expect to be in my pandora's box today? Yes, we are going to halt the chat about solid dosage forms today, for sure. Starting today's great set of talks with the topic of Pills. These are archaich dosage forms, spherical or oval or rounded in shape, quite many times colored.In these, drug powder is mixed with sw...
Jan 08, 2021•7 min
Welcome all to IS PHARMACOLOGY DIFFICULT Podcast! I am Dr Radhika Vijay. Are we starting with news solid dosage forms today? Yes, we are! Today's highlights of the verbal episode are granules, pellets, lozenges and much more to discover, keep your patience and listening abilities alive for upcoming few minutes. I will start the talk with discussions of granules, these are simply dry powdered particles taken after dissolving them in water, making a solution or suspension.Then I will be making you...
Jan 06, 2021•9 min
Welcome all to IS PHARMACOLOGY DIFFICULT Podcast! I am Dr Radhika Vijay. In today's episode, I will be solving some curious questions regarding content of today's episode, its not loading up information about more dosage forms, but telling you about more new facts about tablets. I will start with the tablet definition , followed by descriptions and essence of Chewable Tablet, their details, their abbreviations! Next comes turn of Tablet for dispersion , nowadays better known as Tablet for suspen...
Jan 04, 2021•10 min
Welcome all to IS PHARMACOLOGY DIFFICULT Podcast! I am Dr Radhika Vijay. Wish you all a very HAPPY NEW YEAR 2021. We are not off for today, the 1st of January is a working day, blessed day, for me , for you all! In today's episode I will pay a lot of attention to the start of Solid Dosage Forms, where today's talk will commence from Powders, First I will define them, then I will throw light on different varieties of powders like used externally, internally, bulk powders, etc. Next I will be talk...
Jan 01, 2021•14 min
Welcome all to IS PHARMACOLOGY DIFFICULT Podcast! I am Dr Radhika Vijay. What are the different terms regarding prescribing dictionary? what do you mean by dosage form, excipients, etc. Before we skydive in the winds of variety of dosage forms, lets get acquainted with some important terms used in descriptions of dosage forms of drugs. First and foremost I will talk about the formulation of drug, its the methods or recipe and requires different drug components or ingredients to make a formulatio...
Dec 30, 2020•7 min
Welcome all to IS PHARMACOLOGY DIFFICULT Podcast! I am Dr Radhika Vijay. What are the different rules to name a drug? How does generic name differ from trade name, to know answers of these questions with details about generic names and brand names of drugs, you need to listen to today's episode. The non proprietary names are famously called as generic names.Each drug has a unique INN . A special name stem provides uniqueness to a drug name and associates it with its unique drug class or drug gro...
Dec 28, 2020•16 min
Welcome all to IS PHARMACOLOGY DIFFICULT Podcast! I am Dr Radhika Vijay. How do you name a drug? Why is Aspirin called as Aspirin? Is it same as Acetylsalicylic acid? What is the basis of all these things? Let us get in to mechanics, traditions, and rules of this name game in today's episode. There are many grounds to classify a drug naming method, especially on basis of molecular structure, etc.Broadly I will classify them in three categories namely Chemical or Scientific name, Secondly Non pro...
Dec 27, 2020•9 min
Welcome all to IS PHARMACOLOGY DIFFICULT Podcast! I am Dr Radhika Vijay. Do you know the different categories in which the drug can be classified? To dive deep in the point to ponder, Lets get set and start the talk of day by broadly classifying the drugs in two main categories namely Prescription and Non Prescription drugs. Latter are also known as Over the Counter Drugs abbreviated famously as OTC Drugs. After covering all the important details, their basis of being called so and wonderful exa...
Dec 26, 2020•17 min
Welcome all to IS PHARMACOLOGY DIFFICULT Podcast! I am Dr Radhika Vijay. WISHING EVERYONE A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!! To start episode, I will be emphasizing the essence of this great holiday and festive season Bonding fosters complete, proper interaction of drugs with receptors. The most important and major bonds to be known are Covalent, Electrostatic and Hydrophobic. Strongest bonds are covalent, many a times irreversible in nature. This concept will be clear with good examples. Next I will be t...
Dec 25, 2020•14 min
